ASAC to Hear Kennel Construction Update

Three and a half years after City Council approved an urgent request from city leaders to borrow $2 million to renovate a failing Animal Shelter, the Animal Shelter Advisory Committee will get an update on that yet-to-start project.  

City Council approved the shift to constructing multiple pods on December 2, 2025.  

The urgent financing was proposed in February 2023.  Five months from now, the time frame in the above report, puts it at March 2027.  Next up would be the bid process and once a successful bidder has been chosen, construction would begin.

I know how much my purchasing power has fallen in the last few years.  Given Council's hesitance to invest in competent Animal Services, I expect residents to get much less in shelter facility output from all the delays.  

The prior borrowing cost over $100,000 in fees and interest, a sum much better spent on low cost spay/neuter given San Angelo's third world level of street animals.  Time will reveal Council's wishes and whether any strategies will be undertaken to reverse years of "let them roam unaltered."